It's getting squirrely in here!

A new member joined our Wednesday night club house artists so we started out with a quick warm up to get her up to speed. We move quickly here not to waste a single grain of drawing time. She did well and hang on till things got a bit squirrely. Tis the season.

Hedgy the Hedgehog

Hedgy the Hedgehog has been on my daughter's mind all week, so it was easy to decide the drawing subject for the night. It worked perfectly for the session on TEXTURE! Texture and overlapping were important tool box words tonight.

Jellyfish World

Today we talked about size. I had the Club House Artists put their hand on their face. I asked them if they could see much in the room with their hands covering their face. They said no. We then pulled our hands away from our faces and watched how our hands got smaller. This helped them understand how objects appear smaller the farther they are away from us.

We also talked about overlapping. One object in front of another. Both of these tool box words are important in drawing in 3D.

Next we have Marshmellow. He was trying to multitask. Painting the ceiling at the same time as the floor, but he got carried away and started to lose his balance.

Fuzzy Life Drawings

The studio has a new mascot. A ferret named, Zula. The Club House Artists drew Zoola in her cage and then having fun with a box. They were distracted by the fun of the ferret, but still managed to copy her cage pretty well in 3D. I like the idea of having them learn how to draw from life. Zoola will probably be the subject of many more drawings for the Club House Artists.

What was in the present?

Last week we drew "The present I always wanted." So what was the present that they always wanted?

I love these drawings. Each one has such personality.

I only had one taker for the homework assignment in this class.


Homework: Flying Presents for ME! What a great thing to have dozens of flying presents all for me, me, me! The horizon line is no where in sight as the page is filled with presents. I like how he used different sizes of presents to really make the drawing look 3D. Great job!

Olympic Drawings

These kids are Olympic Artists! We decided to do our own Pen & Mouse Club House spin on the Olympics with some turtle shredding snowboarders. Then of course, they took the gold. The Club House Artists used their foreshortened circles to draw the turtles shredding up some snow. They made sure to tilt the horizon line to indicate that they where snowboarding down a steep slope. 

In their medal ceremony drawings they had to pay careful attention to alignment on their podium steps so their athletes wouldn't slip off.